| The artwork I talk about in this post started with the idea of a wheeled object on an angled track. The object in question is found at the bottom righthand side of the photo below. A very beat up old metal lid (upper part of the photo) would serve as the inside backdrop to the piece. For the lower shelf I would use part of an old tin toy. I had used one of these parts in an older work: Pileup on Avenue N. By the time I was done however, any imagery on it was completely obscured. The first thing to do was make a box to house the backdrop, as well as another piece that served as a lower shelf. The metal piece was set on another piece of wood inside the box and screwed down to it later on. The next photo shows the early stages of the composition. I found another rod that I cut and served as the other two girders inside the box. Some metal squares that I have used in several other pieces would serve as the background pattern. When I initially started this piece, I hadn't thought of it as being part of any particular series. But as I continued to work, I figured that the gears from the Pascal series would be ideal inside the holes, and at that point it became the third in that series. The below photo shows the addition of these images, as well as the first adding of color. While the first two Pascal works are brown/gold/yellow on the outside and blueish on the inside, this one is the reverse. As seen, some springs were also added to the top and some cylindrical metal part were added to the girders. These have the feel of an abacus to me, but that just may be because I entered a mathematical state of mind once the Pascal aspect was added again. The Pascal gears were added as a repeating but feint image along the outside blue border. Like many other pieces, they were taken from a photocopy and then transferred onto a gel medium, While hard to see in the image above, a plank was added to the bottom of the metal lid, which gave it a little more visual support. While I thought the piece was just about done at that point, the interior wasn't popping out the way I would have liked, so spent a considerable amount of time working on the color balance between the inside and outside, as well as the giving more emphasis to the little cylinders on the girders. At last it seemed to come together. This piece is called Pascal's Conveyor, and is 18 x 11 x 6 inches. It hangs on the wall, but have noticed it seems to stand on its own as well. Click on the next three photos for a larger image.  Pascal's Conveyor  Pascal's Conveyor - Right Angle  Pascal's Conveyor - Left Angle  Pascal's Conveyor - Detail  | |||
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